I was just reading the Q and A page on the Cepstral web site regarding SSML tags, and it just hit me that you already have a way to implement vocal gestures for Cepstral voices. By vocal gestures, I meen those sounds that we all make that are not words.Now that there is a trend toward making synthetic voices more emotional, and since I have nothing better to do just this here now minute, I thought I would compile a list of vocal gestures that I might use from time to time with my Amy voice. I do realize that her voice model is not there to record the wave files that are needed. Anyway, as I said, I have nothing better to do.Here's a list of vocal gestures that I would wish for Amy:

<audio src='clear throat .wav' />"Excuse me,<audio src='cough twice.wav'Hello/>"Anyway, I think that I brought this up with Cepstral some years ago, when I first found out about Loquendo and how they did it, but no one took me quite seriously. I think that the voice models used for this task would have to, well, not be afraid to "let there hair down." Now that I think about it, I don't know if Amy's voice model would have been up to the task.

Well that's almost right. I think that each voice model, when he or she records, would have to record each vocal gesture. The remark that I made at the end of my original post on this thread was in no way ment to be a slite, or anything like that. I know that I would feal silly doing some of them. Cry big for instance: "Waaaaa, haaaaah haaaaah haaaaah!Even though I would be in a room all by myself, I would be inhibited. I don't know if Amy's Voice model, not being an actress, would be able to do it convincingly enough.